Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
New York Health Workers: Get Vaccinated or Get Fired
September 29th, 2009There are many people reading this who work in health care. How hard would it be to “obtain” a sample of the actual H1N1 vaccine and have it analyzed? What I mean is: A sample from the stuff that is actually distributed to clinicians and meant for use on the public. Assuming that a sample […]
U.S. Intelligence Budget: $75 Billion, 200,000 Operatives
September 28th, 2009Via: Dissident Voice: Speaking at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club September 15, Director of National Intelligence Admiral Dennis C. Blair, disclosed that the current annual budget for the 16 agency U.S. “Intelligence Community” (IC) clocks-in at $75 billion and employs some 200,000 operatives world-wide, including private contractors. In unveiling an unclassified version of the National Intelligence […]
FBI Releases Edited OKC Bombing Tapes
September 28th, 2009Via: AP: Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building are blank in the minutes before the blast and appear to have been edited, an attorney who obtained the recordings said Sunday. “The real story is what’s missing,” said Jesse Trentadue, a Salt Lake City attorney […]
G20 Post Mortem / Open Thread
September 27th, 2009A few people seem surprised that the U.S. is a police state. Oh the cops. Oh the poor students. Oh boo hoo, we just want to wave our signs. The don’t taze me bro generation is obviously going to have to figure this one out the hard way. My position has always been that people […]
Federal Reserve General Counsel Scott Alvarez Threatens the U.S. with Economic Terrorism
September 26th, 2009Some people may not like my headline. I don’t care. Make up your own headline, if you like. Call it whatever you want. Barney Frank doesn’t want to rock the boat. Oh no. Appearances need to be maintained on the Ship of Fools. Well, the only thing that’s certain is that the Ship of Fools […]
Change: Buy Obamacare or Face Jail or a $25,000 Fine
September 26th, 2009Via: Politico: Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) received a handwritten note Thursday from Joint Committee on Taxation Chief of Staff Tom Barthold confirming the penalty for failing to pay the up to $1,900 fee for not buying health insurance. Violators could be charged with a misdemeanor and could face up to a year in jail or […]
G20 Protesters Blasted by Sonic Cannon
September 25th, 2009Via: Guardian: Only a few hundreds protesters took to the streets of Pittsburgh to mark the opening day of the G20 summit of world leaders, but the police were taking no chances. Sonic weapons or long-range acoustic devices have been used by the US military overseas, notably against Somali pirates and Iraqi insurgents. But US […]
G20 Members Will Subject Economic Policies to “Peer Review”
September 25th, 2009Via: Wall Street Journal: The Group of 20 nations is close to an agreement that would require members to subject their economic policies to a type of “peer review,” according to several senior G-20 officials, in a shift that would expose the U.S. and China to broad scrutiny of the way they run their economies. […]
Patriot Act: Only Three of the 763 “Sneak-And-Peek” Requests in Fiscal Year 2008 Involved Terrorism Cases
September 25th, 2009Via: Huffington Post: In the debate over the PATRIOT Act, the Bush White House insisted it needed the authority to search people’s homes without their permission or knowledge so that terrorists wouldn’t be tipped off that they’re under investigation. Now that the authority is law, how has the Department of Justice used the new power? […]
Newly Declassified Files Detail Massive FBI Data-Mining Project
September 24th, 2009This FBI database is nothing compared to whatever it is that the NSA is building: NSA budgeting documents also indicate that the design of the 1-million-square-foot center should be completed by February, with building to begin in June on a project that could mean thousands of construction jobs for a state that, like many others, […]
